[Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

[Robert Rohde]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:32 AM, John Vandenberg<jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also...
>> *A wiki for book metadata, with an entry for every published work,
>> statistics about its use and siblings, and discussion about its
>> usefulness as a citation (a collaboration with OpenLibrary, merging
>> WikiCite ideas)
>
> Why not just do this in the Wikisource project?
>
> 99% percent of "every published work" are free/libre.  Only the last
> 70 years worth of texts are restricted by copyright, so it doesnt make
> sense to build a different project for those works.
<snip>

Not so.  More printed works have been published in the last 70 years
than the whole of human history preceding them.

-Robert Rohde